Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters Quotes

“But love isn't just about feeling good. It's about doing what you don't want to do, over and over again, if it needs to be done, for the sake of someone else. Love is really about self-sacrifice.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Real love is gritty. It sweats and waits, it causes you to hold your tongue when you want to scream obscenities in anger, and it causes many men to accomplish extraordinary feats.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Dad, it’s not optional: your daughter needs you to be her hero.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“When you teach her always to think about other people, to put herself in their shoes, to know that everyone—her friends, neighbors, and sister and brother—is important, you’ll give her the gift of friendship and living to the fullest as a caring, social being. If you teach your daughter to be good rather than simply happy, she will become both. Teaching your daughter humility is a wonderful gift. And it can be taught only by example.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“You gently leaned over her to kiss her forehead and pulled the blankets around her shoulders. No father can adequately articulate the experience of watching his sleeping child—it must be lived. Now, imagine you are walking out of her room. Could you turn around and look at her and believe that the sum of her existence rests in a mass of cells? Certainly not. But this is exactly how a rank secularist is obliged to view his daughter. She is nothing more than a genetic product of his and her mother’s DNA. The puffing of air through her tiny chest keeps her alive. Your time with her is precious, meaningful, but purely a biological phenomenon. Her thoughts and feelings can be traced to neuronal firing in her brain. One day you will die and she will die and that will be that. Life began through the splitting and rejoining of DNA and when they stopped functioning, she did too.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Humility, however, prevents bullying and being bullied. When your daughter recognizes that all humans have equal value and never esteems herself above another, she doesn’t worry about asserting her superiority or take seriously a bully’s taunts. She knows that our worth is not in what we do, what we have, or what we are capable of being, but in the fact that we are human.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Instead of saying, “I love you because you’re so beautiful,” tell her that you love her because there is no one else in the world like her.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“man can banter with his friends and colleagues about whether God exists. But a father looks at his daughter and knows.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“(Una advertencia para que su vida no se complique: no permita que su hija vea la tele o utilice el ordenador en su habitación. Trate de que la televisión se vea en plan familiar, cuando usted o su esposa están presentes y puedan decidir qué programas ver).”
― Meg Meeker, Padres fuertes, hijas felices

“After more than twenty years of listening to daughters—and doling out antibiotics, anti-depressants, and stimulants to girls who have gone without a father’s love—I know just how important fathers are.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“When a father is involved in his kids’ day-to-day activities, they are more likely to confide in him and seek his emotional support.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Perhaps she was just having early pubertal “rebellion,” her mother and I concluded. (Be careful when you hear this term, because nine out of ten times, this isn’t normal. More is brewing beneath the surface of her behavior.)”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Fifth, whatever one thinks about controversial issues like abortion, it is misleading, to say the least, to downplay the seriousness of the procedure on not only a girl’s body but also on her mind and emotions.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“In kindergarten, your daughter might constantly kick another girl’s chair, or she might be mouthy to the teacher. Bottom line: when she feels irritated, she kicks. When she wants her own way, she mouths off at the teacher. She is out of control and she feels out of control, even though she looks like a tough kid. Even if she was provoked, your daughter needs you to help her separate her feelings from her behaviors. Teach her, over and over again, that she shouldn’t always respond to her feelings. Make her practice. If she learns how to do this, she will get along better with others. Just as important, she will feel much more in control of herself.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Your daughter needs the best of who you are: your strength, your courage, your intelligence, and your fearlessness. She needs your empathy, assertiveness, and self-confidence. She needs you.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“The only way you will alienate your daughter in the long term is by losing her respect, failing to lead, or failing to protect her. If you don’t provide for her needs, she will find someone else who will—and that’s when trouble starts. Don’t let that happen.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Be calm, patient, and frank. Tell her that women in magazines aren’t the best role models, that people who judge everyone on their looks probably have terrible self-esteem issues. Tell her that what matters is not how thin someone is, but what her character is. And tell her what is great about her, what you like about her, what you hope for her.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“People are valuable because they're human, not because of what they do.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“True masculinity is the moral exercise of authority.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

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― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“At the beginning of her life, she will feel your love. At the end of her life, you will be on her mind. And what happens in between is up to you. Love her extraordinarily. This is the heart of great fathering.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always wise, always sensible and calculating, never carried beyond itself, it is not love at all. It may be affection, it may be warmth of feeling, but it has not the true nature of love in it.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Love her extraordinarily. This is the heart of great fathering. Chapter”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“If you don’t give guidance to your daughter, she’ll come up with answers of her own—which means your authority will be replaced by someone else’s.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“I’ve watched girls drop off varsity tennis teams, flunk out of school, and carve initials or tattoo cult figures onto their bodies—all to see if their dads will notice.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“As a dad, whenever your daughter is in a tough situation, all you have to do is ask her this simple question: “So what can you do about it?” And it’s worth asking that question in situations throughout her life.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Who you are, what you believe, what you say and do with your children matters. It really matters.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters Devotional: 52 Devotions Every Father Needs

“Humility, for many Americans, is grounded in the teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition, in which everyone is equal in the eyes of God because He created us and wants each and every one of us. Compared to God, who made us from dust, we might feel utterly insignificant. BUT (my favorite word in the Bible) God made us, so we have a place and a purpose, and He is willing to fill us with every good thing. All we have to do to escape the suffocating quarters of our own lives, to see ourselves with humility, is to recognize that we alone are not the source of all power, intellect, and talent. As we’re told in the Beatitudes, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“From what I’ve seen in my office, the evidence is overwhelming: girls who are emotionally solid and intellectually and morally sound are girls with humility, who understand that they have to fit into the family, and that the family doesn’t orbit around them.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Y, al mismo tiempo, también se está usted beneficiando. Porque las investigaciones demuestran que el cuidado prestado por los padres a los hijos puede aumentar el crecimiento emocional y los valores morales y psicológicos del hombre.59”
― Meg Meeker, Padres fuertes, hijas felices